Word: arens
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...Kosovo Tuesday after a weekend standoff with NATO ?- which led to the Russians' being denied overflight rights by Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine ?- were settled. Although Moscow?s demands for more freewheeling deployment rights were denied for fear of creating a partition along the lines of postwar Germany, the Russians aren?t going to Kosovo as evenhanded mediators. "Unlike in Bosnia, where they were part of a neutral peacekeeping force under coordinated command, they?re making no bones about the fact that their mission in Kosovo is to protect the Serbs," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
Cheap fares and rates aren't the only reasons to travel off-season. Fewer crowds usually mean better service, and many hotels and cruise lines offer special programs. True, they do so as a way to increase bookings and fill rooms, but that doesn't change the fact that these programs are often excellent and usually of particular interest to a sophisticated audience. The Hyatt Regency in Beaver Creek, Colo., co-sponsors an education program for those over age 50 called Explore '99, with wide-ranging areas of study to choose from: astronomy, global issues, painting, history, music. The week...
Coober Pedy is a small town but full of M-E-N. They'll argue all night, but God help you if you cross them. The cops aren't much use out here, and the men take justice into their own hands. Last month, a passing wannabe miner got into another man's mine and rifled a lode of opals that the owner had opened up but left unextracted. (He had taken off to the pub for a beer, committing the fatal error of letting on that he'd struck, and this was overheard by the thief.) His friends identified...
...Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house to accommodate all the tutors. "It's getting pretty grim out there," says Dave Berry, president of College Prep Services, Inc. "Colleges want to see that high school students aren't sitting around watching Seinfeld reruns all summer...
Before his death, Kubrick cut the tantalizing 90-sec. trailer of Tom and Nicole, naked and necking. He knew it would have everyone guessing: Do they? Or don't they? The Cruises aren't telling. "Stanley loved ambiguity," says Kidman. As in all the Kubrick films, the answer to Eyes Wide Shut lies in the seeing...